Banana Bread Breakfast Bowl! In five minutes you can change your same ol’ morning breakfast cereal into something delicious, nutritious and fulfilling!

Banana Bread Breakfast Bowl

Autumn always seems to be a busy time in most households. Students returning to school, attending fall festivities and the much-anticipated lead in to the holidays. Our house is no exception. I am no exception. This fall I’ve been taking classes to earn my certificate in plant-based nutrition. It has been a great experience across the board! I have learned so much on a scientific level about the benefits and healing properties of a plant-based diet. When you take the time to look at all of the research studies for what a whole food plant-based diet can do for disease treatment (and even reversal), it is particularly amazing. Can you tell I am excited about this?! I look forward to sharing with you all that I have learned.

Mashed Banana with Gluten-free Oatmeal

So how does my coursework relate to the Banana Bread Breakfast Bowl? Besides the fact that it IS a whole food plant-based/vegan meal? I took an already action-packed schedule and inserted these classes first thing in the morning. This was my insurance policy, my way of prioritizing them to be sure that they wouldn’t get lost in the hustle and bustle of the rest of the day. When I began my classes I would start each day with a nice hot bowl of oatmeal. Warm for the cold mornings, satiating, and filled with healthy carbs to provide my brain the energy it needed at that early hour.

Banana Bread Breakfast Bowl – Adding Cinnamon

Banana Bread Breakfast Bowl – Ready to Cook

One pre-dawn morning, after starting many days with oatmeal, I found myself standing in the kitchen staring down at my half cup of oatmeal ready and waiting for the H2O. I couldn’t do it. Not one more day of plain oatmeal. Still a nutrition packed breakfast, but I was bored! I grabbed a ripe banana and mashed up half of it, added a heaping spoonful of cinnamon for its antioxidant and insulin sensitivity boosting properties (just to name a couple of benefits), oatmeal, and water. Once it finished cooking, I threw in some golden flax meal, maple syrup, and chopped pecans. A drizzle of cashew milk and I had a breakfast I couldn’t wait to try. Wow! Total yumminess!! It tasted like banana bread!

So there you have it. I highly recommend my Banana Bread Breakfast Bowl to start your day with a bang! If you are looking for an alternative to oatmeal that’s still packed with plant-based protein, try my Apple Pie Quinoa Breakfast Bowl.

Banana Bread Breakfast Bowl! In five minutes you can change your same ol' morning breakfast cereal into something delicious, nutritious and fulfilling!

Ingredients

1/2 cup gluten-free quick cooking oats

1/2 very ripe banana (mashed)

1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 tablespoon maple syrup (or coconut palm sugar, or both)

1 tablespoon golden flax meal

2 tablespoons chopped pecans (substitute walnuts)

cashew milk (or nut milk of choice to top)

Instructions

1) Mash banana in bowl with a fork. Add gf oatmeal, cinnamon, and 3/4 cup water and stir together with a spoon. Cook in microwave on high for 2 minutes, stirring after one minute. Or cook on stovetop in small saucepan until simmering and stirring for 30 seconds. Remove from heat and return to bowl.

2) Add maple syrup, golden flax meal and pecans. Stir together and top with desired amount of nut milk.

Note This will reheat well if you desire to make extra and refrigerate for breakfast the next day as well!

Notes

This will reheat well if you desire to make extra and refrigerate for breakfast the next day as well!